Anyone still worried about schollie numbers? I am actually worried the other way.... we have more openings than players that we really want that may actually come here. I think we will see about 25 openings this year.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

As many as he wants. Not trying to sound like a smart ass, but that is the case. The B1G limit is 25, but you can get a waiver up to 28. The waiver is a rubber stamp as long as you are not oversigning.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

FYI: Right now tOSU has 14 players that are juniors, that is the list of available 2014 scholarships. That list includes Hankins, who I think is gone this year actually opening a sholarship in 2013. Roby is actually a 3rd year Soph, so he could stay as long as 2014, opening up a 2015 'ship. I think he should probably go this year, he could be back for one more: Who knows.

I think we are safe working on 13. Looking at the list of sophomores there are some candidates for early entry to the draft (opening up more 2014 scholarships). Here is my early watch list with probability of leaving:

I think we are looking at 18-20 for 2014, but there are always 2-3 guys you never saw quitting that quit, so I think 18 is probably low 20-22 is probably a safe bet unless tOSU banks a couple, which could push it closer to 25.

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Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

I guess the O'Connor knee injury was more serious than initially thought and the kid has had a pretty rough year. Bummer, I thought he would be an elite guard here. I had him penciled in as 2014 starter.

Not concerned about losing Crowell, sucks the kid never got completely back after that Marcus Lattimore like injury. I didn't think Crowell was going to be the answer at LB.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Se'Von Pittman, 2012 stud four star DE out. Showed up to spring ball looking good last year, hurt his knee, missed the season, never lost his black stripe (maybe) and according to The Dispatch had some off the field issues push him to request his release for a fresh start.

Kind of a big loss from a pure talent perspective but Jamal Marcus has been moved to DE to replace him (and to maximize his incredible ability to do little more on a football field than go from point A to point B really fast and w/ force)

e0y2e3 wrote:Se'Von Pittman, 2012 stud four star DE out. Showed up to spring ball looking good last year, hurt his knee, missed the season, never lost his black stripe (maybe) and according to The Dispatch had some off the field issues push him to request his release for a fresh start.

Kind of a big loss from a pure talent perspective but Jamal Marcus has been moved to DE to replace him (and to maximize his incredible ability to do little more on a football field than go from point A to point B really fast and w/ force)

I never understood Pittman's high rating when I saw him play at McK. felt the same way about Courtny Love at Mooney last year BTW. they hype never matched the play I saw.

There were nice reports about Pittman during Spring ball, but it got much quieter once Spence and Washington showed up. He was injured in spring camp and was not able to get it going again in fall. Bummer, I hoped he was going to work out, but he was always going to be a 5Tech or a 3Tech and that was going to be tough road to hoe. AWash, Schutt, Bennett, Bosa, Price... makes it an uphill battle.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

The word is that Pittman just never was willing to work hard enough to make it at OSU. He wasn't getting it done either on the field or in the classroom. Unmotivated, feeling entitled, etc. So Urban had "the talk" with him and told him he might want to get on with his life's work.

"I believe it is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting." H.L. Mencken

Se'Von Pittman was accused of rape for supposedly forcing a woman to give oral. He was interviewed by police on 21 Feb. I wonder if this had anything to do with his talk with Urban Meyer.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

There are rumors out there now that David "Boom" Perkins is on his way out. The staff is letting him look around and he is looking for a landing pad in the MAC. Watching Blake Thomas drag him 20 yards in the Spring Game definitely made me wonder where he was going to contribute. That said, it is a shame, talented kid. Very Fast seemed like he wanted to be a Buckeye. Good Luck to him.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

It is coming out from multiple 247 staff members. This isn't joe blow the message board insider. Rumor is there were off the field issues too.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

furls wrote:There are rumors out there now that David "Boom" Perkins is on his way out. The staff is letting him look around and he is looking for a landing pad in the MAC. Watching Blake Thomas drag him 20 yards in the Spring Game definitely made me wonder where he was going to contribute. That said, it is a shame, talented kid. Very Fast seemed like he wanted to be a Buckeye. Good Luck to him.

Thomas does look like he will be a player at some point. Unfortunately I am not sure he will be "H-Backy" enough for Meyer's O and Meyer is not a huge TE guy. There are at least 10 posts on this site where I wrote about Thomas dominating highly rated DL in Iggy's run at the State Championship.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

furls wrote:There are rumors out there now that David "Boom" Perkins is on his way out. The staff is letting him look around and he is looking for a landing pad in the MAC. Watching Blake Thomas drag him 20 yards in the Spring Game definitely made me wonder where he was going to contribute. That said, it is a shame, talented kid. Very Fast seemed like he wanted to be a Buckeye. Good Luck to him.

I'm at work, so I can't link it, but this was confirmed by Urban Meyer today per everyone on twitter.

furls wrote:There are rumors out there now that David "Boom" Perkins is on his way out. The staff is letting him look around and he is looking for a landing pad in the MAC. Watching Blake Thomas drag him 20 yards in the Spring Game definitely made me wonder where he was going to contribute. That said, it is a shame, talented kid. Very Fast seemed like he wanted to be a Buckeye. Good Luck to him.

I'm at work, so I can't link it, but this was confirmed by Urban Meyer today per everyone on twitter.

It is fact; he GONE. Confirmed by Meyer today. Gotta give props where they are due, Bucknuts/247 was all over this about a month ago. I think Perkins could see that he was not likely to contribute as long as Shazier is here and from most reports Shazier is looking at staying through his senior year. That would give Boom maybe one year as a starter. I liked Perkins, but I don't see this as a huge loss. OSU plays a lot of 4-2-5, they have a lot of young guys and many more coming in 2014 (at least Hubbard, Berger, Booker (DE?), likely McMillan and possibly Winovich). Winovich is rumored to be on his way to Pitt.

Next man up.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Wouldn't be the first time a kid was reported as out and ended up coming to his senses (see Chris Fields last year - it was the exact same report and "quitting" as Perkins). However, when you go out and get arrested while playing that game it's all but finished.

The Fields situation was a little different in that he had a temper tantrum after a practice and came back around quickly, the Perkins thing... well, it has dragged on for the better part of a month. Like I said, he has been out seeking a home at the MAC level for a while and sent feelers out to a couple of major schools that declined. My guess is that he still ends up at a MAC school for a couple of years and amounts for about 0. See Bell, Dorian.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Good kid, OSU gets a schollie, he gets a shot at PT and a Harvard education.

Win for all.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

This is actually a little convenient. I doubt he was ever going to contribute here outside of special teams. Opens up a 2014 scholarship.

Murray is just too small to play safety (5'8") and with Apple, Conley and Webb it is unlikely he was ever going to log a lot of snaps at CB.

The camp reports on Conley have been GLOWING and we already know that Apple is in line to be a player too. That said, I have never been as confident about a DB being a contributor as I am about Damon Webb. The guy shuts everyone (except EGW) down.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Kind of sucks from a depth perspective. This is a kid that pre-injury last year Urban raved about more than once due to her performance on special teams and athleticism/intensity.

It helps with the 2014 schollie situation but it really isn't a good thing to see happen this year. You don't want to only have Freshman to count on for special teams play, look at what happened last year after the Freshman started getting hurt to the coverage units.

Yeah, I get what you are saying, but Murray regarless of whether Meyer was raving about Murray last year, he was getting crushed on the DC this year. He was a guy that just wasn't going to have a position here at DB. Maybe on ST. Murray's future on this team was going to be very similar to Ron Tanner's.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Adam Griffin had shoulder surgery today, and it was reported by football SID Jerry Emig that his football career is likely over. Also safety Jamie Wood is out with recurring shoulder problems...Wood is a 5th year senior, so his career is essentially over too, you'd assume.

"I believe it is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting." H.L. Mencken

Griffin was a good kid. Hoping the best for him. He made some pretty solid plays (including the punt fake pass defense against PSU). Wood just never got it together and was never healthy.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Rumors on 11W that Blake Thomas may have a career ending shoulder/neck injury. Basically, the nerve problem is causing stingers constantly and ultimately he risks paralysis if he keeps playing.

This has not been confirmed by any reputable source I have seen, but I thought I would share it as the posters at 11W seemed to not be the normal morons. Bummer if true, Thomas was a guy that although he does not meet Meyer's norm was going to play at OSU because he is good at what he does. If you remember in his senior (Ignatius OHSAA Champs) he dominated nearly every good DE in OH as a blocking TE (Strobel, Wormley, the LB/DE that went to Northwestern and a couple of others that I forgot). He had good hands and was an excellent blocker. Not a crushing loss due to depth, but a significant loss the same if this is true.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

On a semi-related note, Bill Greene has been saying that available scholarships for the 2014 class won't be an issue, and Ohio State will be able to take as many as they like. So, looking like 24-25 spots realistically available for this upcoming class. Should be another monster haul.